Airtel has rolled out 5G for Business initiative to demonstrate a wide range of enterprise grade use cases using high-speed and low latency networks. As a part of this, it has announced that it is partnering with global consulting and technology companies such as Accenture, AWS, CISCO, Ericsson, Google Cloud, Nokia, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to work with brands such as Apollo Hospitals, Flipkart and several leading manufacturing companies to test 5G based solutions.
This will be deployed on 5G test spectrum allotted to Airtel and include use cases such as smart factory, smart healthcare, 5G powered quality inspection, digital twin, connected frontline workforce and AR/VR based use cases amongst others.
These demonstrations will be conducted both at end-user locations and at Airtel’s advanced 5G lab in Network Experience Centre at Manesar.
This new comes after the company demonstrated India’s first 5G experience over a live 4G network earlier this year. It also demonstrated India’s first rural 5G trial, as well as the first cloud gaming experience on 5G in the past couple of months.
Airtel is also spearheading the O-RAN alliance initiatives in India to build 5G solutions. It has already announced partnerships with Tata Group, Qualcomm, Intel, Mavenir and Altiostar.
Commenting on the same, Randeep Singh Sekhon, chief technology officer, Bharti Airtel, said:
The 5G ecosystem will open limitless possibilities for enterprises to enhance productivity and serve their customers even better with digitally enabled applications. We are delighted to work with our strategic technology partners and some of our enterprise customers to start testing real life 5G applications of the future. This also offers tremendous learnings across the value chain and lays a solid foundation for future application roadmap.